Download or read book Labcraft Wizards written by John Austin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a wizard takes training, practice, and a few tips from an expert. Author and professional toy designer John Austin, creator of the popular MiniWeapons of Mass Destruction series, provides dozens of projects for up-and-coming sorcerers. Each of the 35 projects in Labcraft Wizards is explained through illustrated step-by-step instructions and uses simple, everyday materials. Build an Enchanted Hourglass out of empty soda bottles, plastic hangers, and sand. Transform a chicken egg into a colorful, bouncy Dragon Egg using vinegar and food coloring or mix up a batch of Ogre Snot with corn syrup and gelatin. Through its creative activities, Labcraft Wizards helps eager minds explore basic concepts in chemistry and physics through experimentation, encourages scientific observation, and fuels imaginations.
Download or read book Industrial Photography written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction written by John Austin and published by Ilex Press. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We've come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies - foldback clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips and plastic utensils - the everyday junk drawer can hold all the materials needed to create pocket-sized weaponry. Whether you're slowing dying of boredom in a stuffy office, plotting revenge on your older siblings or simply looking for a wonderful way to kill some time, this book is for you. Toy designer John Austin provides detailed, step-by-step instructions for each project, including materials and ammo lists, clear pictures, and construction tips, for mayhem-loving MacGyvers. The 35 devices include catapults, slingshots, darts, crossbows, and combustion shooters. Build a tiny trebuchet from paper clips and a D-cell battery. Wrap a penny in a string of paper caps to create a surprisingly impressive "bomb." Several of the projects even include variations where combatants mount laser pointer sights to their shooters to increase their accuracy. The instructions are simple so that anyone can make these wacky innovations in minutes whilst also learning about mechanics and physics in a fun, hands-on way.
Download or read book Book of Heroic Races written by Jon Brazer Enterprises and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-14 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroes Assemble! From the seas below to the skies above, from the land to the stars, heroes are all around us, and they come in many different forms. Now you can go beyond the common races and play a member of these 12 imaginative races in your game. Delve into each race's culture and see the world from their unique point of view. Play a character that you have always dreamed of playing, with all-new specific character options tailored to each race's flavor. Expand your horizons and your gaming experience with these Advanced Races today! The Book of Heroic Races: Advanced Compendium is the essential guide for playing untold numbers of characters. This 252-page supplement features: Racial Traits to play 12 different races, plus 60 Alternate Racial Traits and 49 Character Traits to customize your character for your desired unique play experience 125 New Character Class Options, including archetypes, sorcerer and bloodrager bloodlines, oracle mysteries and shaman spirits, cavalier orders, cleric domains and subdomains, rogue talents, alchemist discoveries, familiars and animal companions, time thief temporal talents, soulknife blade skills, and much more 93 New Feats, including martial arts styles, metamagic feats, combat feats, and feats to enhance your chosen racial traits 84 New Magic Items, Mundane Items, and Technological Items 61 New Spells and Psionic Powers 23 New Deities and Philosophies, reflecting the unique viewpoints and values of each race Details for crafting your unique adventurer, as well as suggestions for GMs on how to incorporate each of these races into your campaign world Be Heroic With These Advanced Races Today!
Download or read book So Now You re a Zombie written by John Austin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All aspects of the zombie lifestyle are surveyed in this satirical take on an orientation manual for the newly undead. From how one became a zombie in the first place and the stages of zombification to survival mechanisms, this handbook offers specific advice on everything a fresh zombie needs to know about "life" expectancy, hunting techniques, hitching a ride, hand-to-mouth combat, and feeding etiquette. Instructions for extracting the living from boarded up farmhouses and broken down vehicles are included along with dozens of helpful diagrams outlining attack strategies such as the Ghoul Reach, the Flanking Zak, the Bite Hold, and the Aerial Fall for securing human prey and their all-important flesh and brains.
Download or read book Mini Weapons of Mass Destruction Build a Secret Agent Arsenal written by John Austin and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culling common household items to create an uncommon arsenal of miniature gadgets and side-arms, this guidebook provides do-it-yourself spy enthusiasts with 35 different surveillance tools and weapons.
Download or read book The Sock Monster Coloring Book written by Barbara J. Appleby and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-05-02 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story about being different and being accepted for who you are. Combining a brief and fun story with easy words. A great way to introduce children to the joys of reading. Children will be eagerly exploring the house to find the fabled Sock Monster.
Download or read book Prank University written by John Austin and published by Crown Archetype. This book was released on 2006-07-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BAD BEHAVIOR 101 Forget about Punk’d. Or any of those other stupid hidden camera shows. Executing the perfect prank is an art that demands deft craftsmanship and sly cunning. Whether you’re talking about a good-natured practical joke between roommates or an elaborate hit against a nosy neighbor, nothing sends a message with satisfying elegance like a well-designed prank. But how can you, just some regular schmo, become an ultimate prankster? Welcome to Prank University! Here are 100 essential pranks—from classics such as Doorbell Drench and Silly-String Sleep to more modern operations like Quick Leg Shave, Wasabi Paste, and Plastic Forking (you’ll have to look inside for that one, but trust us, it’s good). Step-by-step instructions and ingenious diagrams make these diabolical schemes all too easy. An icon system denotes prank difficulty as well as the number of accomplices needed, costs involved (if any), and whether to film the event for posterity. Just remember to use this information judiciously . . . you never know when some young jokester (also armed with this book) might be coming after you. With Prank University, jackass class is in session!
Download or read book Real Sound Synthesis for Interactive Applications written by Perry R. Cook and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2002-07-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtual environments such as games and animated and "real" movies require realistic sound effects that can be integrated by computer synthesis. The book emphasizes physical modeling of sound and focuses on real-world interactive sound effects. It is intended for game developers, graphics programmers, developers of virtual reality systems and traini
Download or read book Historically Underutilized Businesses written by U.S. Commission on Minority Business Development and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cubicle Warfare written by John Austin and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the best ways to lighten the mood at the office, from fun pranks to strategies for getting revenge on annoying coworkers Perfect for every cubicle drone whose eyes are beginning to glaze over from fluorescent lighting and too many burned cups of coffee, Cubicle Warfare is a guide to having fun during the daily grind. Readers will learn how to make their coworkers jump, squeal, and run for cover with hilarious office traps such as the Paper Clip Chain and the Post-it Fake Out, as well as the more advanced Freezer Bomb, Foil Office, 5 Blind Mice, and Keyboard Clover. Even if readers are not pranksters themselves, they can still use Cubicle Warfare to recognize warning signs and defend their cubicles from conniving coworkers. With Cubicle Warfare, dissatisfied office workers can vent their frustrations in fun and harmless ways—and then get back to work.
Download or read book The New Architecture and The Bauhaus written by Walter Gropius and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1965-03-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most important books on the modernist movement in architecture, written by a founder of the Bauhaus school. One of the most important books on the modern movement in architecture, The New Architecture and The Bauhaus poses some of the fundamental problems presented by the relations of art and industry and considers their possible, practical solution. Gropius traces the rise of the New Architecture and the work of the now famous Bauhaus and, with splendid clarity, calls for a new artist and architect educated to new materials and techniques and directly confronting the requirements of the age.
Download or read book Ubiquitin Proteasome Protocols written by Cam Patterson and published by Humana. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of cutting-edge techniques for studying ubiquitin-dependent protein degradation via the proteasome. The topics covered range broadly from basic biochemistry to cellular assays to discovery techniques using mass spectrometric analysis. These biochemical and cellular methods are necessary to explore the ubiquitin-proteasome system and ubiquitin-proteasome-dependent functions. State-of-the-art and user-friendly, Ubiquitin-Proteasome Protocols offers novice and experienced bench scientists alike a thorough compendium of readily reproducible techniques that will accelerate discovery, enhance productivity, and permit manipulation of the system for varied research purposes.
Download or read book What to Do with a Box written by Jane Yolen and published by The Creative Company. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane Yolen poetically reminds young readers that a simple box can be a child's most imaginative plaything as artist Chris Sheban illustrates its myriad and magical uses. Reviews -Booklist, November 2021 “A Box! A box is a wonder indeed. The only such magic that you’ll ever need.” This book offers gentle suggestions for what to do with a cardboard box, from the practical to the fantastical and from solitary to social.”
Download or read book Materials Experience written by Elvin Karana and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There currently exists an abundance of materials selection advice for designers suited to solving technical product requirements. In contrast, a stark gap can be found in current literature that articulates the very real personal, social, cultural and economic connections between materials and the design of the material world. In Materials Experience: Fundamentals of Materials and Design, thirty-four of the leading academicians and experts, alongside 8 professional designers, have come together for the first time to offer their expertise and insights on a number of topics common to materials and product design. The result is a very readable and varied panorama on the world of materials and product design as it currently stands. Contributions by many of the most prominent materials experts and designers in the field today, with a foreword by Mike Ashby The book is organized into 4 main themes: sustainability, user interaction, technology and selection Between chapters, you will find the results of interviews conducted with internationally known designers These ‘designer perspectives’ will provide a ‘time out’ from the academic articles, with emphasis placed on fascinating insights, product examples and visuals
Download or read book Baghdad Solitaire written by Leslie Cockburn and published by . This book was released on 2013-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Iraq after the fall of Saddam Hussein, love and friendship are as uncertain as the shifting battle lines of the civil war. Lee McGuinness, a trauma surgeon on a humanitarian mission, is also on a personal quest: to find her companion-in-arms, Martin Carrigan, who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Has he been kidnapped for ransom? Or is he a traitor to his country, running arms to the insurgents? In search of someone - and something - to believe in, Lee must navigate a wilderness of mirrors in which greed, lies, and brutality are found among allies and enemies alike. In the tradition of Graham Greene and Robert Stone, Leslie Cockburn has written a haunting novel of intrigue and romance set in a deadly world of deception.
Download or read book More of Hollywood s Unsolved Mysteries written by John Austin and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the much requested sequel to 'Hollywoods Unsolved Mysteries', which gained national attention for its controversial revelations about the mysterious deaths of Natalie Wood, Bob Crane, George Reeves, and others. In 'More of Hollywood's Unsolved Mysteries' John Austin picks up where he left off, answering the tough questions and uncovering the truth -- the truth that Hollywood doesnt want you to know.
